Sandra Cisneros Quotes
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I am really curious about life, about why we are all here. I notice my skin is ageing, things are changing, I've seen people dying, so that's the train we are all on.
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You graduate from film school and move to Hollywood. Hollywood tells you, 'We're not the place for you to make films,' so you decide you have to make a film yourself.
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The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human.
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Our concern is to heal. Our concern is to bring together.
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The first show I worked on was 'In Living Color.' I think 'The Daily Show' was the culmination of having that point of view - being able to look at this third rail in our society.
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In China, we don't know about the swimming pool game, but we know about Marco Polo.
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My heart is mysteriously alive in the world of sounds - a totally different dimension from the daily life.
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Politics is a herd mentality. Politicians don't really lead. Politicians reflect what they think is consensus opinion.
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I don't harp on the negative because if you do, then there's no progression. There's no forward movement. You got to always look on the bright side of things, and we are in control. Like, you have control over the choices you make.
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It's funny because when I'm outside Australia, I never get to do my Australian accent in anything. It's always a Danish accent or an English accent or an American accent.
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The American landscape has no foreground and the American mind no background.
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Go to the young conductors who are not making it, and you will hear how we shouldn't push ourselves or sell ourselves, how they don't have the right connections and the right opportunities. Well, you can be sure they've had the opportunities.
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I do find that it's easier to get Latino-themed movies... but I don't think there's that stigma anymore. I think that what's harder is to be a woman, not to be a Latina.
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The value of 'Made in Italy' must necessarily be up-to-date. This is the philosophy that Italia Independent has embraced. We decided from the outset to do away with stereotypes and attune ourselves to the extreme pace, to the incessant metamorphoses of the globalized world.
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All love is unrequited. All of it.
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I am not overlooking any mail. I'm looking at all of it. I even wrote back to the Viagra people.
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I couldn't care less about business.
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I have a great need for affection from an audience. I don't know whether this is because I had such a tough life when I was a child.
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I usually have a 13-hour workday. But at times, we get lucky when we wind up in 8 or 10 hours.
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Since there is no such thing as complete knowledge of a subject, one is always working to improve one's reading, writing, etc., of a subject. As Thomas Henry Huxley said, 'If a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, is there anyone who knows so much as to be out of danger?' …. The problems of learning to read or write are inexhaustible.
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The closer you get to heaven, the less air there is, because when you get to heaven for real, you don't need to breathe anymore.
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When I say what I'm reading, this is what I need. I know the ills that plague me.
